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Crime Pays: Weekend Playlist by The Flavor Project

RVA Staff | December 13, 2019

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This time around, we’ve got some tunes selected for your enjoyment by The Flavor Project, a wide-ranging ensemble featuring some of the most talented musicians Richmond has produced in recent years. It’s led by bassist and ringleader Gabe Santamaria, and mixes hip hop, funk, soul, and Latin American flavors together into a tasty melange of delicious groove.

The Flavor Project stays busy, and their next live performance will happen only one week from tonight, when they will join The Shangri-Lords for a Christmas-themed musical spectacular at Fuzzy Cactus on Friday, December 20. Mark your calendars now, and fill the time until then jamming on this playlist filled with a ton of talented musicians, including quite a few local ones, delivering the sort of hip hop, soul, jazz, funk, and Latin sounds that keep the Flavor Project so sweet.

Go back for seconds, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

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I Was An Eagle: Weekend Playlist by Deau Eyes

RVA Staff | December 6, 2019

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week, we’ve got a set of great tunes from Deau Eyes, the musical project of Richmond-based singer-songwriter Ali Thibodeau. Straddling the line between 90s-style indie/alternative rock and a more classic Americana-influenced rock sound, Deau Eyes has been making quite a stir on the regional music scene for the past couple of years now — and that’s with only one single having been released thus far!

If you listen to this entire playlist, you’ll get a chance to hear that single, “Paper Stickers,” at the very end, but before you get there you’ll get an amazing assortment of powerful songs in all sorts of different genres — folk, soul, indie, psych, and many more. All of it’s sure to keep your chilly December weekend warmed up, though — and isn’t that what’s most important?

Raise your hand, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Dogfight Over The Trenches: Weekend Playlist by Marilyn Drew Necci

Marilyn Drew Necci | November 22, 2019

Topics: best of 2019, emo, folk, hip hop, indie, metalcore, Playlist, rva magazine weekend playlist, Samarra, Weekend Playlist

Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week, as the year draws to a close and the holidays come into view, we’re staying in-house to bring you a playlist from our editorial director and resident music nerd, Marilyn Drew Necci. Here’s what she has to say about it:

“Usually by the time Thanksgiving rolls around, music critics are starting to release their best-albums-of-the-year list. I’ve never believed in jumping the gun like that, so please don’t take this playlist as a final official word on the year in music from my perspective, or anything of the sort. However, I did think it would be fun to share a slew of rad tracks from all sorts of genres that have come out since the beginning of 2019. Enjoy this one as you contemplate your own best-of-2019 list (if you’re the sort of nerd that makes one), or simply as a helpful guide to some good music from this year that you might have missed. PS — the top photo is me with my old band, Samarra, back in 2016. I really do play bass, it isn’t just a clever song choice. ;)”

You heard the lady — give this one a spin and see what the year has had to offer, musically speaking. And be prepared for everything from hip hop and metal to shoegaze and quiet acoustic folk. If there’s one thing Drew’s never been accused of, it’s having a narrow range of musical tastes.

Add it up, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Top Photo by Jake Cunningham

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Honeyed Words: Weekend Playlist by Majjin Boo

RVA Staff | November 15, 2019

Topics: Cardinal, emo, indie, local bands, local music, Majjin Boo, math rock, music, Playlist, post-rock, rva magazine weekend playlist, Weekend Playlist

Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week, we’re celebrating the release of Majjin Boo’s debut LP, Go Between, last month on Egghunt Records by reposting the playlist they made for us back in the spring. At the time, they were briefly using the name Cardinal, but they have returned to their original name for Go Between, a collection of excellent melodic math-rock tunes created over their first few years as a band. If you haven’t yet obtained a copy, we highly encourage you to do so — cassette and digital copies are available at Egghunt’s Bandcamp.

You can pair it with Majjin Boo’s playlist, which brings together a variety of inspiring indie, punk, math-rock, and emo sounds, and goes quite a ways beyond these narrow genre confines as well. The combination of this playlist with the seven tracks on Go Between will create the perfect start to your weekend.

Let it flow, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

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Devil In My Veins: Weekend Playlist by BlackLiq

RVA Staff | August 23, 2019

Topics: black liq, black liquid, hip hop, local artists, metal, music, Playlist, rap, rock, rva magazine weekend playlist, Weekend Playlist

Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an excellent and essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week’s comes to us from BlackLiq, a man who has been making his mark on this city’s hip hop scene for a decade, both with his extensive back catalog of albums, mixtapes, and live freestyles, but also with his hip hop-oriented local radio shows, on which he brings the best of Richmond’s vibrant hip hop scene to a wider audience. Recent releases include a video for his latest state-of-the-city address, “RVA,” and Now Vol. 7, a new compilation of freestyles recorded live on air at WRIR as part of his Saturday night radio show, Hip Hop For The Rest Of Us.

Liq’s got plenty of hip hop for us all on this playlist of bangers, from classic artists like Ice-T, 2Pac, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard to gone-too-soon Richmond legend The Honorable Sleaze, plus his favorite guilty pleasure, Gucci Mane. Along the way you’ll get occasional dips into metal, funk, and classic rock, but this mix is mostly about the boom-bap — which is perfect for a sunny summer weekend in August.

Go hard, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

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